"World Environment Day 2018"

World Environment Day is a chance to reconnect with nature and celebrate the places that matter most to you. The theme for 2018 is "Beat Plastic Pollution". The host nation is India. The theme for the World Environment Day 2018, "Beat Plastic Pollution". By choosing this Theme, it is aimed that people may strive to changes in their everyday lives to reduce the heavy burden of plastic pollution. People should be free from the over-reliace on single-use or disposables, as they have severe environmental consequences. We should liberate our natural places, our wildlife - and our own health from plasticsa. World Environment Day (WED) occurs on 5 June every year, and is the United Nation's principal vehicle for encouraging worldwide awareness and action for the protection of our environment. First held in 1974, it has been a flagship campaign for raising awareness on emerging environmental issues from marine pollution, human overpopulation, and global warming, to sustainable consumption and wildlife crime. WED has grown to become a global platform for public outreach, with participation from over 143 countries annually. Each year, WED has a new theme that major corporations, NGOs, communities, governments and celebrities worldwide adopt to advocate environmental causes.

"On World Environment Day,
the message is simple: reject single-use plastic. Refuse what you can’t
re-use. Together, we can chart a path to a cleaner, greener world."
— Secretary-General, António Guterres

Humans are both creatures and moulders of their environment, which gives them physical sustenance and affords them the opportunity for intellectual, moral, social and spiritual growth. In the long and tortuous evolution of the human race on this planet a stage has been reached when, through the rapid acceleration of science and technology, humans have acquired the power to transform their environment in countless ways and on an unprecedented scale.

The United Nations, aware that the protection and improvement of the human environment is a major issue, which affects the well-being of peoples and economic development throughout the world, designated 5 June as World Environment Day. The celebration of this day provides us with an opportunity to broaden the basis for an enlightened opinion and responsible conduct by individuals, enterprises and communities in preserving and enhancing the environment. Since it began in 1974, it has grown to become a global platform for public outreach that is widely celebrated in more than 100 countries.

Each World Environment Day is organized around a theme that focuses attention on a particularly pressing environmental concern.

The theme for 2018, “Beat Plastic Pollution,” is a call to action for all of us to come together to combat one of the great environmental challenges of our time. The theme invites us all to consider how we can make changes in our everyday lives to reduce the heavy burden of plastic pollution on our natural places, our wildlife – and our own health. While plastic has many valuable uses, we have become over-reliant on single-use or disposable plastic – with severe environmental consequences.

World Environment Day celebrations arced across the planet on six continents to landmarks from China to Dubai turning green in solidarity with nature. Calling on people around the world to connect with nature, appreciate how it sustains us, and make sure we do more to keep it safe.“I encourage you all to get out there, get in nature, get in the ocean,” Grenier, who is also a strong advocate for ocean protection, said before Jack Johnson took the stage in Toronto the last year. “We can become a sea of change.” “Any day I get to kick off with a paddle is a great day,” Trudeau said, urging people to “go outside and connect with the environment we are fighting for.”

Now we can aggressively plant many trees to mitigate our species' harms to the shared earth.

BEAT PLASTIC POLLUTION

“Beat Plastic Pollution”, the theme for World Environment Day 2018,
is a call to action for all of us to come together to combat one of the
great environmental challenges of our time. Chosen by this year’s host,
India, the theme of World Environment Day 2018 invites us all to
consider how we can make changes in our everyday lives to reduce the
heavy burden of plastic pollution on our natural places, our wildlife –
and our own health.

While plastic has many valuable uses, we have become over reliant on
single-use or disposable plastic – with severe environmental
consequences. Around the world, 1 million plastic drinking bottles are
purchased every minute. Every year we use up to 5 trillion disposable plastic bags. In total, 50 per cent of the plastic we use is single use.

Nearly one third of the plastic packaging we use escapes collection
systems, which means that it ends up clogging our city streets and
polluting our natural environment. Every year, up to 13 million tons of
plastic leak into our oceans, where it smothers coral reefs and
threatens vulnerable marine wildlife. The plastic that ends up in the
oceans can circle the Earth four times in a single year, and it can
persist for up to 1,000 years before it fully disintegrates.

Plastic also makes its way into our water supply – and thus into our
bodies. What harm does that cause? Scientists still aren’t sure, but
plastics contain a number of chemicals, many of which are toxic or
disrupt hormones. Plastics can also serve as a magnet for other
pollutants, including dioxins, metals and pesticides.

If you can’t reuse it, refuse it

This year’s World Environment Day provides an opportunity for each of
us to embrace the many ways that we can help to combat plastic
pollution around the world. And you don’t have to wait until 5 June to
act.

There
are so many things that we can do – from asking the restaurants you
frequent to stop using plastic straws, to bringing your own coffee mug
to work, to pressuring your local authorities to improve how they manage
your city’s waste. Here are some other specific ideas:

Bring your own shopping bags to the supermarket

Pressure food suppliers to use non-plastic packagin

Refuse plastic cutlery

Pick up any plastic you see the next time you go for a walk on the beach

What else can we do to tackle this problem? Share your ideas on social media using the hashtag #BeatPlasticPollution.

Check this space in the coming weeks for more details of this year’s campaign, and don’t forget to sign up to receive all of our updates in the run-up to World Environment Day 2018.

Reconnecting you to nature

On 5 June, go outside and show us that you’re #WithNature. Breathe in the beauty and remember that by keeping our planet healthy, we keep ourselves healthy too.

HistoryWorld Environment Day [WED] was designated by the UN General Assembly in 1972 on the first day of United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, resulting from discussions on the integration of human interactions and the environment. Two years later, in 1974 the first WED was held with the theme "Only One Earth". Even though WED celebrations have been held annually since 1974, in 1987 the idea for rotating the center of these activities through selecting different host countries began.

World Environment Day

Official name UN World Environment DayAlso called Eco Day, Environment Day, WEDType InternationalSignificance

This day celebrates the natural environment and allows a global platform to raise awareness on the environmental issues worldwide, with plans to mitigate these issues as a global community.

Individuals and organizations are encouraged to add activities related to the environment for saving it and also motivate the initiative of others in celebrating and protecting our lifeforms' ecological and biological relationships with our shared ecosystem.

A Platform for Action

World Environment Day is the United Nations’ most important day for encouraging worldwide awareness and action for the protection of our environment. Since it began in 1974, it has grown to become a global platform for public outreach that is widely celebrated in over 100 countries.

The People's Day

Above all, World Environment Day is the ‘people’s day’ for doing something to take care of the Earth or become an agent of change. That ‘something’ can be focused locally, nationally or globally; it can be a solo action or involve a crowd – everyone is free to choose.

The Theme

Each World Environment Day is organized around a theme that focuses attention on a particularly pressing environmental concern. The theme for 2017 is connecting people to nature.

The Host

Every World Environment Day has a different global host country, where the official celebrations take place. The focus on the host country helps highlight the environmental challenges it faces, and supports the effort to address them. This year’s host is Canada.

Registration

In recent years, millions of people have taken part in thousands of registered activities worldwide. Please sign up so we can keep you updated on various activities.

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